Polar bears are one of the largest mammals on land; only the African elephant can tower over the polar bear in this corner of ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

Polar bears are not just the largest bear species on earth they also hold the distinction of being the only species of bear that has been documented ...

The Buffalo Zoo is excited to announce the return of Polar Bear Days during February break. Happening from Feb. 17 to 21 ...

Comparing fur samples collected from animals in Svalbard, Norway, an international team of researchers first identified that ...

A fat polar bear is a bear more likely to thrive in its extreme Arctic environment. So, when scientists discovered polar bear ...

Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. "I learned that ...

It’s not the white fluffy look-alike our kids snuggle or the cartoon image drinking Coca-Cola or “fat loungers who draw crowds at zoos” or animated replicas who speak to our children with the press of ...

They then compared the performance of polar bear hair with human hair and two human-made ski skins. A polar bear’s insulating fur shown under infrared heat imaging taken with a FLIR E75 24o ...

Polar bears in Western Hudson Bay have seen their population nearly halved over the last several decades, largely due to dwindling sea ice and limited hunting opportunities, according to the findings ...